Bounty For Booting XP on the Intel iMac

An anonymous reader writes "The race is on. You can try to get the bounty for booting Windows XP on iMac. At this moment there is $2773 waiting for the winner. However several people have brickified their iMacs when playing with EFI." I imagine those tech support calls are hysterical ;)

Don't they have this backwards?

[SlickCow]

What I want is to boot MacOS on my PC. How about a bounty for that?

No EFI backwards compatibility module on iMacs

[Randall311]

Therefore getiing XP to boot natively won't happen. There is still a chance at booting Windows Vista though, as it supports EFI. The only thing to overcome is the ACPI requirement that Vista has. The intel chip and mobo inside the iMacs stupport ACPI, but of course it has been removed from Apple's version of EFI. Find a way to get ACPI support onto the Mactel's EFI, and you should be able to have a dual boot config with Windows Vista.

Xen and Vanderpool

[affinity]

Does the "Core Duo" processor include the Vaderpool virtualization extensions.
And if Xen is able to use Vanderpool to transparently support WindowsXP/2003 then, would using Xen be the best way to go, with out having to deal with the Boot issue.

Plug in AC while holding the power button???

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah right. Sounds more like a troll hoping to trick people into frying their Macs.

Small bills please...

[toupsie]

You can already boot XP on your Intel Mac [openosx.com].

Wine?

[millahtime]

Now that macs use an intel chipset and the backend is BSD based, can't one just use wine to run their MS apps? Just like in freebsd/linux/unix? When I get my MacBook that is one of the first things I will be taking for a spin.

Re:the opposit

[Daniel_Staal]

That'll probably have to wait until Apple is selling an Intel-compatible version of OS X. At the moment they sell machines with one loaded, but they only come with recovery disks, not full installers. (And the recovery disks are probably locked to that particular model, which limits your options when you hack.)

The next version of OS X will have it on the DVDs, and that is when the real hacking will commence...

Linux on Macintelintosh

[SgtChaireBourne]

Probably this bounty for Windows XP on the Intel Mac is prompted in a reaction to Linux on the Intel Mac [com.com]. Can't have the press paying attention to that, now can we?

Re:the opposit

[Golias]

The "restore" DVD contained a normal Mac OS X 10.4 installer

It has recently been established that the "normal" Mac OS X 10.4 DVD which comes with the new iMac will not work on other Macs.

I believe that's what the grandparent post wast bitching about.

Re:But not as useful...

[carlislematthew]

It's not just the Intel chip that's the issue. Things like graphics card access and hard drive access *are* emulated, or at least abstracted and go through additional APIs. SLOW.

I've run VMWare many times on x86 hardware and it runs VERY SLOWLY when you need to access the hard drive, usually because the "hard drive" is actually a fragmented file sitting on the host OS hard drive, which is the only convenient way of setting it up.